200 
old trees of it in the Botanic Gardens, the remains of an old 
avenue which led to a Ciiinese house which existed here before the 
Gardens were founded, nearly all the trees are long dead but two 
remain good and strong. The plant grows so well it might be 
well worth introducing again, but there seems some difficulty in 
procuring it. It has never fruited. 
C. obtusa is well represented here in pot plants, a number of 
the pretty cultivated forms from Japan being introduced, but they 
do not do well out of doors. 
C.pisifera , Koch. — is< equally good as a pot plant and several 
ornamental forms of this plant are in cultivation. 
Thuia dolabrata , Zuec. — This has as yet been only cultivated as 
a pot plant, as which it is very attractive. 
Th. orientalis , L, — This which is often cultivated as a pot plant 
and also planted out, does not do really well in this country. 
Though plants live a long time when planted out, they have a habit 
of dying at the ends, and getting to look shabby, I have never seen 
a really good plant in the Straits, I am more inclined to attribute 
this to the unsuitable soil than to the climate, and it might do better 
at higher altitudes where the hill soils are more friable. 
Sciadopitys verticillata, Sieb. — The Umbrella pine does very well 
here as a pot plant, and is very attractive. It is not at all probable 
that it would thrive in our poor soil planted out, as it is difficult to 
grow well in Europe. 
Crypt omeria japonica , Don. and its variety elegans are cultivated 
as pot plants in the Botanic Gardens. 
Agathis robusta , Br. — An Australian tree grows very well in the 
Straits Settlements and is commonly cultivated in Gardens, attaining 
a large size. It is grown .from seed, and though not of very rapid 
growth soon becomes a striking tree. There are many well grown 
plants in various gardens of the Peninsula especially in Singapore 
where its tall poplar-like spire of foliage makes it stand out very 
strikingly from the surrounding vegetation. It not rarely flowers, 
but I have never seen ripe fruit. The tree appears to be always 
unisexual. 
A. loranthifolia , Salesb. — The indigenous species, a common tree 
in the t hilI-forests of the Peninsula such as Penang Hill and the 
Thaiping Hills in Perak, does not thrive so w T ell in the low country. 
It attains a very large size in the forests. The timber is of good 
quality and the tree .is very rich in turpentine, of which it exudes 
much when wounded. It is known to the Malays as Damar Minyak . 
Araucaria Bidwilli , Hook. — A native of Queensland is often 
cultivated here, and attains a fairly large size, but probably the soil 
does not quite suit it as it never becomes very large. 
A. Cookii, Br. — Of New Caledonia grows well and is often 
cultivated. 
A . Cunninghami , Lamb, and its variety glauca , native of Australia 
and New Guinea, grows very well and attains a large size. 
